25 kilograms of Pure Energy
By: Torben Materna, Johnson Controls-SAFT Advanced Power Solutions GmbH
Developing an efficient battery management system for the Mercedes-Benz S 400 HYBRID ...
Model-Based Design for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Systems
By: By Saurabh Mahapatra, The MathWorks
Energy security, fuel prices, and environmental concerns have increased pressure on the automotive industry to create energy-efficient and environment-friendly vehicle designs. Research in the last decade and a half has led to a range of vehicle designs based on electric drives...
Power Electronics Challenges for Hybrids
By: By Randy Frank, Contributing Editor
Suppliers have been busy improving existing designs and inventing new technologies to make hybrids and PHevs more acceptable
for vehicle buyers...
Electronic Safety Systems Enable Fuel-Saving Hybrids
By: by Peter Lake TRW Automotive
The market for safety and fuel-saving technologies is on the rise and consumers are demanding vehicles that are more safe, fuel efficient and environmentally...
Power Conversion
By: By Randy Frank, contributing editor
Batteries for hybrids are anything but standard, so voltage conversion requires customized designs for optimal performance......
Under the Hood of the 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe Dual-Mode Hybrid
By: by Randy Frank Contributing Editor
The dual-mode system used in the 2008 Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon hybrids represents the first fruits of the combined efforts of General Motors, Daimler-Chrysler...
Putting the electrical power in hybrid powertrains
By: by Sayeed Ahmed Infineon Technologies
Performance, reliability and cost aspects of power device and power module
design in hybrid vehicle applications....
Going all electric - doing it yourself
By: by Mark E. Hazen
One of the things I have always wanted to build is an all-electric vehicle it didn't have to be from the ground up a conversion would be fine. I have...
Batteries for vehicle propulsion - The next generation
By: by Prabhakar Patil Compact Power Inc.
Hybrid-electric vehicles represent the best solution that we must pursue with a sense of urgency. Even though they are not the silver bullet, hybrids have significant advantages....
UNDER THE HOOD OF THE 20XX CHEVY VOLT
By: by Randy Frank Contributing Editor
When General Motors unveiled the plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt concept at the 2007 North American International Auto Show, interest immediately focused...
Software AND simulation tools optimize powertrain Controls
By: by Randy Frank Contributing Editor
One of the more recent challenges that carmakers must address includes developing hybrid components, strategies and calibrations. Hybrids require optimizing...
Computer models to facilitate cost-efficient hybrid powertrains
By: by Ashok Bindra Editorial Director Power Electronics Technology & RF Design
While fuel cell-powered automobiles look promising, they are still years away from commercial realization. And, hybrids seem to be the practical solution...
Editorial: Committed to improving hybrid electric cars
By: by Ashok Bindra Editorial Director, Power Electronics Technology & RF Design
As we usher in an era of a clean and green environment, carmakers around the world are making sincere efforts to cut emissions and pollution from vehicles they manufacture, and are racing to reduce the dependence on oil. ...
Reinventing the automobile with new DNA
By: by Ashok Bindra Editorial Director, Power Electronics Technology & RF Design
Over the years, automobiles have made tremendous strides in using advanced technologies. And electronics has played a critical role in this transition....
Under the Hood of the 2007 Saturn Vue Greenline
By: by Randy Frank Contributing Editor
The only way to externally identify that the Saturn Vue Greenline uses an internal combustion engine and electric propulsion is by observing the hybrid logo. However, the hybrid technology of this SUV is quite different from its competitors....
Battery Firms Battle for Hybrid Hegemony
By: by John H. Day, contributing editor
Traditional battery makers and a new wave of nanotechnology firms are contending to supply lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for next-generation hybrid vehicles....
HEVs Drive Power Components Toward Standardization
By: by David Morrison Editor, Power Electronics Technology
High-power dc-dc converters play a critical role in the electrical systems of hybrid electric vehicles. These complex modular components provide the link between the low-voltage bus and the high-voltage bus used in the power train....
Vehicle Thermal Management Systems are Getting Smarter, Better
By: by Heinz-Ubbo Eilks Dana Corporation
One key to significant advances in fuel economy, emissions reduction, and powertrain performance lies within a single area of the vehicle the thermal...
HEV Battery Technology Advances Surely but Slowly
By: by David Morrison Editor, Power Electronics Technology
Though forward steps are being taken, hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles are still several years from entering mass production. Much closer to showroom reality are hybrid electric vehicles, which the FreedomCAR program views as an intermediate technology step to a pure hydrogen economy and hydrogen vehicles....
Ultracapacitors Charge Ahead in Automotive
By: by David Morrison Editor, Power Electronics Technology
Energy storage devices are considered enabling technologies for future automotive designs, particularly hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and fuel cell...
Ward's Auto Electronics: A New Kind of Hybrid
By: by Drew Winter Editor-in-chief, Ward's Auto World
Say the word today and most folks think you're talking about a gasoline-electric powertrain like that found on Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius, Ford Motor...
Hybrid Vehicles Propel Increased Electronics Content
By: by Randy Frank, Contributing Editor
Hybrid vehicles are expected to more than double the use of electronic
components in automobiles. This report investigates the impact of hybrid
vehicles on the powertrain as it probes architectural developments.
It also shows how it is driving the design of power components like inverters,
dc-dc converters, battery chargers, cooling systems, electric power steering
and electric A/C, along with electric clutch disengage
and regen braking, as well as other in hybrid designs....
